A federal appeals court on Friday rejected former TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau’s bid to overturn his conviction and 10-year prison sentence for having exaggerated the content of a weight-loss book he marketed through infomercials. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago found no basis to accept Trudeau’s claims that the government lacked enough evidence to convict him, his sentence was too long, and jurors were instructed improperly. Trudeau, 52, was appealing his November 2013 conviction by a Chicago jury over his promotion of the 2007 book “The Weight Loss Cure ‘They’ Don’t Want You To Know About” in three 30-minute infomercials, which aired roughly 32,000 times.

Let’s ignore, for expediency sake, electrical fires. They are a case apart, an exception to the prevailing rules. Much the same is true for highly prescriptive, condition-specific diets, such as low protein intake for kidney failure, or a ketogenic diet for control of intractable seizures. There are always exceptions, but they don’t obviate the…

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Women who use in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other reproductive technologies may be more likely to have children with certain cancers or developmental delays than their peers who conceive the old-fashioned way, two new studies suggest. “At this point in time, we don’t believe the weight of the available evidence is strong enough to suggest that women should not proceed with ART,” Melissa Bondy, an oncology researcher at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston who wrote an editorial accompanying the cancer study, said by email. Instead, the researchers mined data from birth records for all children born in Norway between 1984 and 2011, pairing it with cancer registry data.

By Claudia McNeilly You might remember this ad from the city’s Bloomberg era: An overweight man sits on a stool as he faces the camera; his right leg appears to be amputated below the knee. It was a jarring PSA from New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, popping up in subway cars in 2012 to urge New Yorkers to cut back on…

As the study shows, a high-fat diet during pregnancy and lactation leads to epigenetic* changes in the offspring.

Title: ‘Til Weight Loss Do Us Part?
Category: Health News
Created: 1/29/2016 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 2/1/2016 12:00:00 AM

What if polycystic kidney disease (PKD) could be combatted with a strategy as simple as dieting?

Title: Eating Certain Fruits, Veggies May Help a Bit With Weight Control
Category: Health News
Created: 1/27/2016 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 1/28/2016 12:00:00 AM